State v. Fairbanks
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Catahoula; David Newton Thompson, Judge. O. W. Fairbanks was convicted of crime, and appeals.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
BREAUX, C. J.
The defendant was indicted for willfully and feloniously making *243an assault upon T. W. Perrins by willfully and feloniously shooting at him (Perrins). The verdict of the jury found him guilty as charged. He was sentenced by the trial judge to be confined at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a period of seven years.
The defendant has raised several questions in his defense before this court;
In the district court he urged in his motion for a new trial that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence; and another, an issue of fact, was also raised in the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Knowlton v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- State v. BazileSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1898
- State ex rel. Rivoire v. St. PaulSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900
- State v. BradySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1887
- State v. SheardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1883